How to do it...

1. Declare a Sequence instance for the given elements:

val sequence = sequenceOf("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h")

2. Apply the mapping operation to the elements of the sequence:

val sequence = sequenceOf("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h")
val transformedSequence = sequence.map {
 println("Applying map function for $it")
    it
}

3. Print the first two elements of the sequence to the console:

val sequence = sequenceOf("a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h")

val transformedSequence = sequence.map {
    println("Applying map function for $it")
    it
}
println(transformedSequence.take(2).toList())